AAA-CPAWe are proud to announce that we have changed our name to the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs. Along with this, we have a new logo and messaging to reinforce the benefits of our organization. Click here to read the letter from our president. Additionally, we have put together a list of questions and answers that you may have regarding this change. Please click here to read the FAQs. Questions may be directed to Kimmy Livingston at klivingston@attorney-cpa.com.

AAA-CPAJoin us at the Annual Meeting and Education Conference, June 21-26 at the Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in Maui, Hawaii. This fantastic week of amusement and adventure, plus 16 hours of CPE/CE (on a 50-minute hour track) or 13 CLE/MCLE (on a 60-minute hour track), is one not to miss. The AAA-CPA has reserved a block of hotel rooms at the Marriott. The AAA-CPA has negotiated a rate of $229* for single or double occupancy, plus a resort fee of $15 (a third and fourth person in the room are $40 per person). All rooms are an upgrade to ocean view.

The Wall Street Journal The New York City Council is proposing to eliminate property taxes for the city's 1,271 limited-income co-ops in exchange for tighter rules, an effort designed to preserve an unusual affordable-housing resource in the city.
Many of the co-ops were created in the 1980s and 1990s to boost homeownership among the poor.READ MORE

Tax-news.comThe U.S. Internal Revenue Service, state tax administrators and tax product firms have announced a new campaign to encourage more people to protect their personal and financial data. The "Taxes. Security. Together." campaign, which will continue through the April tax deadline, was announced Nov. 19. READ MORE

USA Today People are piling on Pfizer, incensed about the drug giant's plan to merge with its smaller Irish rival Allergan in a deal known as an "inversion" that will essentially cut the U.S.-based company's tax bill in half.
The critics might want to stop giving Pfizer such a hard time. The company is actually just trying to get what its major foreign rivals already have.

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Accounting TodayThe Internal Revenue Service has been developing a new system to detect fraudulent tax returns to replace an outdated system, but has not been able to phase out the old system, which could cost taxpayers an estimated $18 million per year to run both systems, according to a new report.READ MORE

NewsmaxThe United States is on the verge of economic collapse.
It is being tipped over the edge by its own government with an unquenchable thirst for taxes and incurable addiction to spending.
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The New York Times The Senate Finance Committee is scrutinizing nearly a dozen private museums opened by individual collectors, questioning whether the tax-exempt status they enjoy provides sufficient public benefit to justify what amounts to a government subsidy. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the committee's Republican chairman, sent letters this month to small galleries like the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Glenstone museum in Potomac, Maryland, as well as Eli and Edythe Broad's new $140 million art museum in Los Angeles, asking for information about visiting hours, donations, trustees, valuations and art loans.READ MORE